Birthday time!

Yesterday was Jason's birthday. We started out the morning at a very early 7:45, I had to take Jason to work. While he worked, I cleaned the apartment. I picked him up at 11:30 and we came home to have lunch and open presents. A pair of pants, socks, and jacket from his parents, and two gift cards from his aunt. 

We went and rented the new college football game for the 360 and Jason played that for a while. Then we went to wal*mart to get an ink cartridge so Jason could print things out. 

                        On a happy side note, Jason got a secondary for Med school from the University of Utah, on his birthday.

He printed out his things and we took them to the post office to be mailed out and then went to Tucanos for dinner. It was really good as usual. When we got home Jason decided we would return his football game and get a movie. We looked all around the store, and they didn't really have anything, so we ended up getting Race to Witch Mountain. It was alright. There were some pretty funny parts, and some cheesy parts. It was an alright movie, something kids would really enjoy. It wasn't like the original Escape to Witch Mountain. It was very different. I was kind of hoping they would have just done a remake of the original. 

It was a pretty fun day. I am so grateful for my wonderful husband, whom I love very much and I am so happy to celebrate his birthday with him. 

MOVIE REVIEW!

Technically it should be "movie reviews."

The other day I borrowed 17 again from my mom. The movie was very cute, very predictable, and very cheesy. I did enjoy it though. There were only small parts that I did not like, namely the parts with the principal. I thought those were overly cheesy and distracted from the film. 

Push was a really good movie. It has Dakota Fanning in it, and I really like her! It was a very interesting movie, with lots of plot twists and action to keep you going. It was fairly intense and very fun. I will see this one again. 

We also watched knowing, with Nicholas Cage. It was pretty good. A little jumpy, but nothing bad at all. The girl in the beginning of the movie was great! The rest were only alright after her. The movie was interesting. A little sci-fi, a little suspense. It was an interesting story.

Yesterday we rented a movie called The Brother's Grimm. It was fairly good. It has Health Ledger and Matt Damon as the brother's Grimm. They are called to a town to help them find their missing children. It was a clever movie that incorporated many of the Grimm's fairy tales. After seeing the cover I thought the movie would be a lot more trashy than it actually was, which was pleasing. It was an entertaining movie that I would possibly watch again. The acting was pretty good and the story was entrancing. 

When we were finished with The Brother's Grimm, we went back and rented The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was pretty good. I thought the special effects and makeup were done very well! The story was interesting, and the acting was good as well. I did not like that it was based on a flashback through a journal. They cut into the story way too much to cut to a dying old woman with lung cancer and her daughter. That part could have been easily done without. Or at least cut A LOT of that garbage out. It was very predictable (at least with the mom and daughter) and I was just so sick of it. Anyways... Brad Pitt did an exceptional job and I truly loved his "mama" in the movie!

The Time Traveler's Wife...

On Sunday evening while Jason and I were at my parents house for dinner I noticed a book on the couch, "The Time Traveler's Wife." I immediately picked it up and started reading it. Janna came upstairs and told me it was her book, I just couldn't put it down. I kept reading through dinner and caught up to where Janna was in the book, and then passed her. Our laundry was finished and it was time to go, but I couldn't convince Janna to let me take it.

Monday morning I got up and watched tv wishing I could read the book instead. I went to school and in class I texted Janna and she said she didn't even have a chance to read the book while she was at, which is why she wouldn't let me borrow the book. 

Monday evening: We went to see Joseph at the Scera Shell with my family. Janna showed up with the infamous book in her purse. She went to get a chair, and I took the book. I read and read and eventually Janna realized her book was gone. She was engrossed in the play and let me read. I asked her when the play was over if I could just take it home and finish the book, she relented and I got to read the book, in exchange for editing out the bad parts.

This continued until this morning after class, so let me give you my review...

POSSIBLE SPOILERS:

The book was actually really good! I really enjoyed it. So much better than Twilight. However, there were some bad parts. The book has a LOT of F words. Seriously, there are a lot! There are also some very explicit sex talk/scenes. REALLY EXPLICIT! If you cut those parts out the book is good. It has a great story and plot. It is well written and very interesting. Even though you kind of know what is going to happen, the book is actually suspenseful. The characters were very interesting and developed. I loved the relationship between Henry and Clare, it was believable to me. I didn't like the morals the characters had, but I guess not everyone has high standards, and of course the situation Henry was in, I understand some of his actions. 

I would give the book 4 1/2 out of 5 stars, but I am warning you that this book is really graphic. There is a lot of trash and garbage in it. The f word is literally on almost every other page, and there are some very trashy scenes. I wish they could edit trash out of books like clearplay does with movies! I guess you could send me your book and for $5 I'll go through and cut out (black them out) the unnecessary f words and sex scenes, since I've already done it for Janna's book and can just copy my own work. ;) ;)

Anyways...

The movie comes out on August 14th. It looks great.

Oh and the actors who play the characters from the book seem to fit the images of what I had in my head, for the most part.

Pictures!

I love it when I am driving around and see odd/interesting things. I reach for my phone and pray it will go to the camera fast enough that I can snap a picture while stopped at the light.

I went from school to my moms house and I saw this on my antenna! He came with me all the way from my school to my moms house, what a brave grasshopper!

Jason and I were on our way home and we saw this (extremely slow car) with a gatorade bottle sitting on the rear bumper. Maybe it was glued there because it didn't fall off.

This is for my cousin Leisy. I was on my way to school and I saw this license plate in front of me and had to take a picture. 

Apartment

We signed up for a 2 bedroom apartment in North Wymount a couple of months ago about two weeks before we were to move back we got an email saying that the people who were supposed to move out of our future apartment decided they wanted to stay. We were given two options. One in south Wymount and the other in North. One was a two bedroom and the other was a bedroom with a study. We picked the bedroom with study.


To be honest it was an alright apartment. I only had a couple of issues with the apartment.
1. First and most importantly, our items were not going to fit inside the apartment.
2. The living room was almost as small as a hallway. It was long but narrow.
3. The kitchen was decent, but the stove was honestly from the 40's As you can see from the picture.
4. The kitchen was filthy when I went to look at it.
5. Someone was parked in my designated spot

Jason was still in Montana when I first saw the apartment. I knew there was no way our stuff was going to fit in that apartment. It did not reflect the pictures we had seen when we looked at pictures online. I went to the office and spoke with the woman I had been emailing and spoke to her about my problem. She gave me 4 keys so I could look at four apartments in North Wymount and see which one we wanted.

They were all very nice. Bigger than the apartment in south wymount. The main thing we wanted was a bottom level. Out of keys she gave me only one was the bottom level. Amazingly it had just gotten a brand new stove. There was tape still on it and the oven manual was on the counter.


We are still in the process of setting it up and maybe I will post more pictures.

HP:HBP Midnight

HP HBP

We went to the midnight showing for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

We waited for about 4 hours in line and then got to wait in the theatre for the next 2 hours until the movie started. We went to the new University mall theater and it was so delightful (minus the stupid arm rest. When you lean your chair back and have the arm rest up it doesn't recline with the chair so it gets really uncomfortable).

The movie was pretty good. They left out a TON of stuff, but with only 2 hours and 35 minutes what did you expect? They changed a couple of things, some vital to the books story-line. 

All in all the movie was pretty darn good. It had fantastic acting, wonderful special effects, and beautiful cinematography. 

You know when you are watching a movie and one of the actors has to cry? These parts usually bug me so much because it looks like the actor is totally faking it, which they are, but I don't want to think they are pretending- that's the whole point of ACTING! Anyways... No such instances in the movie.

Anyways... I am a little tired, and need to get ready for school.  

quick catch up

Jason and I are back in Utah and settling in. I now have internet and figured I should do a quick catch up. 

The first and most important thing is that Jason and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary on the 26th of June! 

The 4th of July was really fun this year. We went to dinner at the Brick Oven and then went to watch the fireworks by the bell tower. 

We have moved into our new apartment in Provo. We are VERY pleased with it so far. We have upgraded to a 2 bedroom apartment and it is treating us very well. The living room is ginourmous! The apartment doesn't have wireless internet so we went and got a wireless router today so we could use the internet throughout the apartment. We went to Ikea for the first time ever! I had a gift card that I got from Caidy for Christmas of 2007 (oops, it only took me forever)! We walked around, and I got a little lost. We ended up getting a pack of beautiful glasses and a fairly large rug! That store is seriously awesome. It has such great deals that it's worth the drive up to Draper.